Gamma Medica-Ideas of Northridge, CA, will be unveiling three significant enhancements to its X-SPECT preclinical imaging system.
The vendor will debut SuperSPECT, a new SPECT reconstruction package for the X-SPECT system that measures the unique response characteristics of each detector and collimator combination, and produces images with a spatial resolution as fine as 0.6 mm using a 1-mm pinhole. This development breaks through the generally accepted spatial-resolution boundary in SPECT imaging, which has, until now, limited spatial resolution to no finer than the size of the gamma camera's pinhole aperture, according to the company.
The vendor will demonstrate SpiralSPECT, an X-SPECT imaging enhancement that will allow users to image large subjects in a single set of scans and at high resolution, Gamma Medica-Ideas said. Multi-Pinhole SPECT, an X-SPECT enhancement that allows users to obtain high-resolution pinhole images with high-sensitivity, will also launch at the 2005 RSNA show.
All three of the X-SPECT product enhancements will be commercially available by December 31 this year, the firm said.
By Jonathan S. Batchelor
AuntMinnie.com staff writer
November 3, 2005
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